"Fake story "Swede" of Rurik. Who was he, really?"

Norwegian journalist, correspondent of the newspaper "Aftenposten" in Moscow per anders johansen published an article that called prince Vladimir valdemar. There he writes that the ancestor of the "Valdemar" ". Was a swedish viking rurik, who founded a royal dynasty that was destined to rule Russia for 600 years". This phrase is good because it knocks the ground from under the feet of those who fuss, with emphasis on the role of the chronicle of prince rurik, the so-called rurik of jutland. Norwegian journalist with full knowledge of native history (middle ages history of Denmark and Norway was closely intertwined) said it about a "Swedish viking rurik". And i understand why.

Because "Version" of the great acts rerik jutland in Russian lands is not accepted by the Danish medievalists. A leading expert on the history of Denmark the so-called viking period, else roesdahl in his now-classic work so directly and said (apparently tired of her with similar questions): "Hardly a Danish leader, who was also named rurik and which operated in friesland at the same time, when acted chronicle rurik was one and the same person". And the danes love to be "Capitalized" such a major political figure in favour of Danish history, if that was even the slightest chance! but Danish medievalists know both the language and historical material of the past Denmark in contrast to the Russian visionaries on the scandinavian theme, so none of these historians want to compromise themselves with the support of questionable in historical terms, version. Now about the name rurik, as long as the etymology of the chronicle names normanists based all their scandinavian. I explore in detail the origin of the name rurik and his story in the book "The names of the chronicle of the princes and the ancient roots of the institute of princely power", therefore here give only its brief description. The name rurik is scandinavian.

It is recorded from ancient times, specifically, the last years bc throughout Europe, from the Eastern limits to the british isles – with the exception of the scandinavian countries. In the scandinavian countries the name rurik revealed several centuries later than on the European continent. Moreover, this name was not included in any of the scandinavian dynasty of imenoslov unlike continental Europe or the british isles. In Sweden, the name rurik is reflected in several runic inscriptions with dating not earlier than the xi century but in runic inscriptions meet foreign names, such as varin or rogin that clearly belonged to the newcomers from the Southern states. The name rurik are representatives of some noble swedish birth not earlier than the middle of the xiii century, but the name never left the scope of uzcasemash imenoslov.

And these families showed linkage with the South baltic noble families from which these names may have come through marriage relations. In the ordinary Danish imenoslov the name rurik begins to meet not earlier than xiii century, which means it tainstvennosti. The name of the so-called rerik jutland flashed and left no trace, began to actively borrow in the later middle ages. Thus, in real life, Danish, norwegian, icelandic and swedish societies the name rurik/rerik appears very late, with xi-xii. Or xiii century and is the exception rather than the rule in the naming.

And in swedish it imenoslov were not included. What does this mean? this suggests that rurik/rerik was alien to swedish society name, the bearers of which had blood ties with the history of the swedish people. As an additional argument will lead to the swedish runic inscriptions where the name of rurik. It is well known that the rune stones with special zeal was recorded of a person famous campaigns in distant lands. Given me the information collected in the catalogue of the runic personal names and in the compilation of runic inscriptions "Sveriges runinskrifter".

Here is a list of all the carriers named rurik, recorded on rune stones in Sweden. They are not informed xi. Ög 153, the dating of the xi century translation: "Rurik erected this stone in memory of frode and asbjørn, their sons. "Sö 159, dating 1010-1040. Translation into Russian: "Ingiald and oliver set this stone in memory of his father, thorbjørn. He spent a long time in the West.

Rorik, gudmund, bu and gunlaw carved the runes". Sö 47, dating the christian period. Translation: "Rurik, established this memorial to his son asmund set. He was buried on gotland". Runic inscription on this stone was commented in the article of mats postrema, where in particular, it was noted that the text side of the stone had no decorations, and on the reverse side was carved a cross. Postrema have cited a different translation: "Rerec erected this memorial sign on to his son asmund set. He is buried in the church. " in this article, no matter what the translation is more accurate: "In the church" or "Gotland".

But different translations demonstrate that the interpretation of runic inscriptions is the reconstruction of polusmerti characters when guessing make up a large part of the translation. It is assumed that in the runic inscriptions the name rurik is found twice. But the first name survived only two initial and one final letter ry. R. Hence, the first name rurik guessed on the second, written in the genitive case. But twice repeated the name rurik gives the phrase some strange character.

It is therefore possible that the first name was not rurik, but, for example, ruar (this name is also found on rune stones), and then the phrase as follows: "Ruar erected this memorial sign on asmund set, the son of rurik. He is buried. ". U 41, dating not earlier than the end of the xi century translation: "Ulvi had placed this monument to his son land, and bjorn and tom – his brother. "U 934, dating: approximately the xi century translation: torah and rerik(?) and carl, these brothers. Here one should pay attention to what the runes spelled as ryþikr. Swedish researchers naturally thought it to mean. Expressed, assumptions that such writing could hide the name ryðingr or røðingr, but it turned out that these names are not found in swedish runic inscriptions.

Only in documents from the year 1293 was several times mentioned the name røthingr. So the "Majority" decided to read the name in the inscription as rörik, but with a question mark. The argument is clearly weak, because the stone with the fragment of the inscription was found embedded in the stone church wall, respectively, the inscription could have done rather late, so there is no need to verify the name in this inscription with other rune names. But those who have destroyal this writing (and this part of rune legacy was published in the 40-ies of the last century), i really wanted to capture as many swedish rurikov, even though the late period. So, if you exclude a name from the inscription ryþikr u 934, because it is attributed to the list rurikov clearly to reinforce the flimsy rows of bearers of this name in the swedish history, it turns out all four of them scattered everywhere over the xi – xii centuries.

And where is the rune stone, glorifying the swedish viking rurik, who founded a "Royal dynasty that was destined to rule Russia for 600 years"? it could be for the simple reason that fake story "Of the swedish viking rurik" was created by swedish political figures only from the beginning of the xvii century.